This video will instruct you on how to restore your recycle bin’s deleted files. It seems like you can’t access it when you clear your recycle bin, but the files are still hanging around in your computer. This will help you both for finding and restoring your deleted files and/or clearing up your computer’s space. This works with both XP and Vista.

So recently, my network icon was missing (it’s that little computer icon in your taskbar’s tray). I tried a few ways to recover it like right clicking on my taskbar going to ‘Notification Area’ and checking ‘Network’, but it was not clickable. So I had to go research on Google, still other people’s methods did not work. I had to mess around with my computer a bit and I found a solution, that should work pretty well for you guys.

So if this happens to you, this is what you should do:
1) Go to Start – Run
2) Search ‘regedit’
3) Go to Edit – Find or CTRL+F
4) Search search the term ‘iconstream’
5) Delete these two registry files ‘IconStreams’ and ‘PastIconsStream’
6) Restart your PC
7) The network icon should reappear, if it doesn’t right click on your taskbar, go to ‘Notification Area’ and now you will have the option to check the ‘Network’ box.

Hope this will help solve your problems. It had happened to me several time and this same method helped me out a bunch.